Of course I went to see it. I loved the first one. It was 45 bucks for the Wifi and me to see it. Dude when did the movies become so much? If you know nothing, it good. Seeing Rome as it was. The flooding of the colosseum. The Legionary NCOs in all there fancy armor. The story is all over the place. There are parts that should be motivating factors that never develop.
Problem 1; Rome would never attack a city like that. The Legions strength was on land. A walled city was never a problem for the Legions. They would have encircled the city and brenched the walls.
Problem 2; The ships are of Greek design. This event is 200 plus years after the Punic Wars. Roman ship design changed during the Punic Wars. And serval more times, by the time we reach Caesar.
Problem 3; The ships shown have a bronze ram on the bow. That ram is built into the keel. When these type ships struck an unwater tree on rock, the ram would break off and or the keel would be breached. The ship would sink. You cannot ram or drive this type of ship into a wall and be afloat afterwards. They would beach them aft first, bow out, because the sand would break the keel as the ram touched.
Now you as, they rammed ship and did not have a problem. Yes because the target could and would move when struck. The whole kinetic impact would not transfer down the ship.
Problem 4; The legions breach the walls. What happened to their shields? Legionaries are effect because of the way in which they fight. They are a standing professional army at this time. They are trained to fight a certain way. In the movie they are over the wall fighting as independent characters or heros.
Problem 5; The legionaries are shown buring and burning the dead. They breached the walls. When an army breaches the walls, the city is theirs to plunder. Anyone alive would be a shell of a human being and a SLAVE. Those slaves would be doing this shit work.
Problem 6; The legion NCOs up to the commander are shown to display sadness or horror. Never happened. They Command would have 30 years of fighting under his belt. The NCOs the same. They lived for this. They wanted this action. The made the most profit from this action.
Problem 7; The triumph, the commanding generals face is not painted red. When he reaches the step and the Emperors speak of his great honors. He says he did not do it for himself. Of course he did. This is how you got rich, political power, clients, family power. This is exactly of Rome work. No one would ever say that.
The movie is about 25 minutes in and full of issues. The next scene is the general and wife talking about him feeling shame for all the dead. Which again would never happen. This would and is every general's dream to get a triumph. And the Hollywood BS starts creeping in.
The movie is worth the ship battle in the flooded colosseum. Other than the sharks. Romans actually did it more than once. The archers targeting the rowers and helmsman. The oar rake and the rowers fate. The ramming and rolling of the target. The boarding action. Only thing wrong was after ramming they did not back water.
